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Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25

Everybody 10 looking forward to the
charity bah which takes place Wednesday
evening. It will doubtless be q great sue
cess.
Mr.. James Monteath went to the Warm
Springs yesterday to visit his wife, who is
sojourning at that place for the benefit OF
her health.
Messrs. Sam Beaumont, Jos. Whitworth,
| Chris Schroeder, Geo. Tucker and DR..
Ownings were among the Knights from
Deer Lodge.
| Miss Anne Anderson expects to return to
Bozeman to-day, She seems much pleased
with Butte aud has made many fr e
here who wish her to remain.
Mr.. E. w. knight, cashier Of the First
National bank in Helena, and his wife and
neice were among the many who came over
to enjoy the Knights Of Pythias ball.
DR.. Holland Of Walkerville. will 60 East
this week. He will be absent a month and
upon his return will open a drug store in
Helena. where he will permanently reside.
Mr.. Barbour and sister came over from
the Capital last Friday to attend the
| Knights of Pythias ball. As the train was
| belated they did not arrive in Butte until
II O'Clock.
There will be a book" sociable given by
the officers and those prominent in getting
up a library at the Library rooms in the
Court House next Friday evening. All are
invited to attend.
Miss Ellen Meikleiohn recalled the invita-
tions to her party which was to have been
given last Friday evening in n OF the
Misses O'Farrell. on account OF Mrs.
Noyes' severe illness.
The university Club" held a meeting
last evening at Mr.. Chas. S. Goodale's
office. Arrangements were made we believe
for a grand dinner. The young ladies would
suggest that they give a party in the near
future.
DR.. w. L. Steele, Mayor OF Helena, and
Territorial Medical Examiner, spent the
greater part of the past week, inspecting
the Pen~itentiary and Insane Asylum, and
came up to Butte last Wednesday to see
friends.
Rhea goes to Paris the middle OF July
for a two months rest, returning to this
country about the middle of October. She
makes her home at Montmoreney, where
she owns a picturesque old chateau, part
OF the fruits of her labor on the stage.
There will be a match cricket game on
June the 18th, with an English eleven from
Three Forks, Gallatin County. The game
will be played here. No doubt it will be
anxiously looked forward to. We under
stand a ball will be given in the evening.
Rhea carries a wardrobe Of seventy-fve
Paris dresses. The gentler sex will there
fore have an opportunity of getting all the
latest ''points" in the way Of female MILL
merry. In the play of ''Frou-Frou" the
actress is dressed and undressed, from the
time she enters the theatre until che leaves
it, exactly eleven times.
From the Los Angeles Times OF the 18th
we learn that Miss Jennie A. Arnold,
formerly of Butte, and MIR. Fred. A. Sails
bury were married on the 18th by Rev. w.
j. Chichester at the residence of Geo. w.
O'Dell. The young lady, it is said, has
married into one OF the wealthiest families
in Los Angeles.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25

and causing one end Of it to swing around
and strike Mt. &, cutting some bad gashes
in his leg and hand. Tn horse was pretty
badly hurt also.
Tourists are already arriving in Livings-
ton en- route to the Park. On the 14th at
least ten people we're at the new hotel
in Livingston awaiting transportation to
the Park.
The em%bankment on the east side of the
Bozsman tunnel still continues to fall upon
the track at the slightest provocation. A
slight delay of trains was caused on Satur-
day from this cause.
Inquiries show that the ground squirrel
has been pretty well exterminated near
Bozeman, and that those engaged in the
business of hunting squirrels have to go a
considerable distance.
All saloon keepers must remember that
before they can secure a license to carry on
their business after July LIST next they
must file with the County Clerk a petition
signed by ten ~freeholders OF the vic nifty.
Flint Creek and Bitter Root Valley must
be pretty well filled up with Mormon
graders by this time from the large num-
Der OF men, women and teams that have
been noticed moving through Deer Lodge in
that dire :tion the past two weeks.
considerable Interest," 1S being MANIFESTED
in Bivins' coal mine near White Sulphur
Springs. He has quite a large quantity of
coal out. and proposes to spend the sum
mer in going deeper into his mine.
]. w. Dunham, who has one OF the
choicest locations in Smith River Valley.
two niles southwest of White Sulphur
Springs. has transplanted 600 trees this
spring of different varieties. He completed
the work m ArhOr DaY.
"Man's lnhumanity to man" was never
better illustrated than by Judge Melton's
last Sunday, IN refusing to issue a
permit for entrance to the county hospital,
OF the Indians who were injured in the
wreck at Dell.-Dillon Tribune.
A monstrosity in the shape OF a lamb
with eight legs, four eyes. two heads and
two tails, was dropped at John A. Wood
sons sheep ranch ont day last week. The
heads, legs, tails and eyes were all perfect.
1t died, of considerations.
Mr.. Rose, a ranchman living four miles
up Buffalo creek, while out burning brush
a few days since, was attacked by three
black bears, but he managed to keep the
between himself and the bears, until he
his stable, where he had 4 horse,
which he mounted and rode off at a lively
uofo
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25

The travel from New York to Jersey City
on Sundays is simply enormous. If there
is any day in The week when the average
New Yorker wants his beer or toddy it is
on Sunday, and the enforcement of the
Blue laws on the Sabbath day in the city
drives thousands over the river or the New
Jersey side, where they can indulge in their
favorite beverages. transportation lines
and Jersey City saloons are reaping a rich
harvest at least one day in the week.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25

Jones of Florida is out of luck. While
he has been vainly ~endeavoring to win the
heart and hand Of Miss Palm of Detroit,
his successor in the United States Senate
has been duly elected, and a young lady OF
his own city n Florida fell heir to So, OOO..
900 and married an assemblyman of the
place. The fates are turning a cold shout.
der to Jones.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25
Sam Randall SAYS he is anxious To

Sam Randall says he is anxious to hav,
the President and his friends look afte1
New York. which tie Republicans are doinf
their best to organize. I'VE must not lie,
them get ahead OF u.s." he observes. wv,
can look after our matters in Pennsylva
MIA but he must look after New York him
SELF" The last time that Randall 'tool
care Of matters in Pennsylvania the Re
publicans carried the State by a plurality
Of 80, OOO.-Chicago Herald.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25

Blaine and Sherman, like two well-trained
pugilists in the ring, are watching each
other and each feinting for an opening
where a blow may be planted. Each has
his hackers and trainers, and each is conf
dent of carrying off the Republican nomi.
nation for the Presidency next year. 1t is
a very pretty fight and will serve to amuse
the public during the next twelve months.
when the cortest will ke decided.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25

Disguised individuals who would like to
commit suicide, but are afraid of the pain,
will be delighted to learn from that most
eminent authority, DR.. Brown Seguard, that
death by throat cutting is painless from the
moment the skin is severed, and that the
>evering Of the larynx produces complete
anasthesia. There is now no excuse for
dragging out a miserable existence.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25

Belle Boyd, the Rebel spy,"has made an
unsuccessful lecture tour in the North and
has returned to her home in Florida. She
is in moderately fair circumstances and
can wash down the disappointment OF her
Northern trip with the juice of oranges
from her own grove, which is more than
most unsuccessful lecturers can do.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25

Advantage is being taken OF this beauti.
ful weather by many to make needed i'm.
provements in and around the private res
licences Of the city. In a month or so their
the rose,
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25

A careful computation shows that go
600 people left New York last Sunday for
New Jersey, where beer is sold in unlimite]
quantities. Many other thousands went
to more distant resorts, and not a few
managed to have a little moisture at home.
New York may have to take considerable
exercise under the new system, but it can
not be said to be suffering much.-Ex.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25

No city in this wild, free west has such a
brilliant future before it as Butte. With
two railroads making all speed to reach it
and scores of mines awaiting cheaper trans.
portation to add their output to the
wealth OF the world, it occupies a most en-
viable position.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25

The report that an extra session will be
called next October in ridiculed is Wash.
ington. 1t is positively stated one will not
be called unless emergencies at present un-
anticipated shall arise before the beginning
OF the regular session in December.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25

The Wyoming cattle kings appear to be
willing that United States troops shall pull
down their barbed wire fences which were
built around government lands. The job
will be done without costing them a cent.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25

The government of China has given a
thirty years monopoly OF the telephone
business to an American syndicate. China
will o be able to take high rank among
the civilized nations of the earth.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25

1t is again limited that Maxwell, the muir.
derer of Preller. who has been sentenced
to be banged, is quite as likely to die OF
old age in the St. Louis prison as he is to
suffer the penalty for his crime.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25
Tho William Tell House.

on East Broadway has lately been rs enc.
waited and will from this time furnish s ettv
class lodgings for twenty-five cents 20 NY ~
cents per night. At the bar n n h+s
wines, liquors and cigars can 10 a":naht
at ali times. This house is noted as a
pleasant and comfortable house>1or
travellers and the liberal patronage OF 1ne
nastis sufficient to recommend it in the
fptnre, PETER HESS, Proprietor.
luoufo' &.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25
The Largest Hoist in the Territory.

Owing to the washout that took place on
the railway below the Anaconda on Thurs
day night the chutes in the mine became
full. On starting up yesterday. morning
the men undertook to Guido all former
large hoists and as the different foremen
and engineers nave a rivalry between them
selves they put in their best ticks yester-
day and hoisted over 600 cars in ten hours,
making the largest hoist ever made in
the. Territory excepting when the machin-
cry was tested at the first starting up of
the works. At that tim they had double
the number of men SO as to keep the
supply steady and avoid any waiting.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25
Seal Presses

u,;.. ue.a" Seal Presses Notariai and'
"lAon Hea" .;thsr round Or oval form.
CorPo IA : few hours'notice and as good -
n mao s, on the east. Price $4.50.to IS eaen'
a"' ~" C. E. KEMP. Helena, N. l.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25

The Livingston Coke &Coa,C Company are
furnishing the bulk Of coke used at the
Wlckes Reduction Works.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Estate of c. F. Young, Deceased. -
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned AZ:
ministra1or of the Estate Of c. F. Young,
deceased, to the creditors of and all persons bay.
ing claims against the said de eased' to exh fna.
months after the first publication of this notice,
to the said Administrator at the Probate Court
room, in the County of Silver Bow. :
Dated April Is. 1887. -,
Administrator of the Estate of c. F. Young, de-
ceased.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25

Gathering flowers for grandma,
With fingers nimble aud fair,
Gathering flowers for grandma,
Sitting in the great arm chair.
Gathering flowers for grandma.
With her face go calm and sweet,
Gathering flowers for grandma.
Where earth and heaven meet.
Surely the flowers are of heaven.
Grandma is with us still,
The flowers are Gods blessing
Gathered from off His hill.
Gathering flowers for grandma,
To brighten her cosy room.
Gathering flowers for grandma.
To cheer her journey home.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25

TOR SALE house and lot on the corner Of
r. Montana and Glendale streets: a choice Dusl-i
ness stand opposite the Dillon depot. inquire
of Mrs. NJ. A. Dingley, Dillon. Montana.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25

THIS GOOD OLD STANDBY
accomplishes for everybody exactly what isclaimed
fortt. One Of the reasons for the great popularity OF
the Mustang Eminent is found In its universal
applicability. Everybody needs such a medicine
Tho Lumberman needs 1t in case of accident.
The Housewife needs 1t for generalfamily use.
The Canaler needs it for his teams and his men.
The Mechanic needs 1t always on his work
bench.
The Miner needs It in case of emergency.
The Pioneer needsit-can get along without 1t.
The Farmer needs it in his house, his stable
and his stock yard.
The Steamboat man or the Boatn1an needs
it In liberal supply adoatand ashore.
The H0rse-fancier needs tit IL his best
friend and safest reliance.
The St0ck.gr0wer needs Tit will save Elm
thousands of dollars and a world Of trouble.
The Railroad man needs it and will need 1t SO
long as his life is a round of accidents and dangers.
The B-ackwoodsman needs it. There is moth.
ing like it as an antidote for the dangers to life.
limb and comfort which surround the pioneer.
The Merchant needs 1t about his store among
his employees. Accidents will happen. and when
these come the Mustang Eminent is wanted at once.
Keep Bottle in the House. IT'S the best of
economy.
Keep a Bottle in the Factory. Its immediate
use In case Of accident saves pain and loss Of wages.
Keep n Bottle Always in the Stable for
use when wanted.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25

mE. IdUA OOEudu, I'll audCOuud, dJ-
tended the ball given by the Knights OF
Pythias.
Mr.. Charles Aspiring, of Deer Lodge, at
tended the Grand Lodge OF Knights OF
Pythias.
Mr.. ]. R. Russell is having his residence
on Washington street repaired and much
improved.
Mr.. T. H. Kleinschmidt came over from
Helena last Wednesday and returned
Thursday.
There will be nc practice of the cricket
club to-day on account OF the continued
wet weather.
MI. j. W. Fairfield, OF the popular firm
Of Hight & Fairfield, spent last week in
Philipsburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. James McCaig have moved
on West Granite street into the cottage they
formerly occupied.
The banquet Of the Knights OF Pythias,
which took place last Wednesday evening,
was q grand affair.
Mrs. and Mrs. E. W. knight and Miss
Sue Barbour will dine to-day with Mr.. and
Mrs. M. B, Brownlee.
Miss Kate Siebenaler went to Cable Sat.
urday morning where she will spend sever
al months teaching school.
Messrs. L. A. Walker, Harry Walker and
Clearance Kinna are among the Knights
who visited Butte last week.
Mrs. O'Farrell and her daughters, Misses
Mary and Katie. will leave tomorrow
evening for their trip abroad.
Miss Mary O'Farrell's pupils in the High
school presented her asst Friday with a
very beautiful pink feather fan.
Mr.. D. M. Newbro and Miss Laura King
led in the grand march last Friday evening
at the Knigts hof Pythias ball.
Mr.. w. A. Akers will leave to-day for
Nicholia, Idaho, on a business trip. He
will be absent four or five days.
Mr.. E. L. Bonner and wife accompanied
by Mr.. M. j. Cornell and Mr.. w. A. CLARK
enjoyed the opera last Thursday evening.
The Mikado reception. which took place
at tho Pavilion last Friday evening. was a
great success both socially and financially.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-02-19

Feb II, 1862, the general order was given
Grants men to march from Henry to Donel-
son. There were two roads; one, the Wynn's
Ferry road, leading to Dover south Of Fort
Donelson, the other north Of it some dis
tance The two came together not far from
the fort, the northern road leading directly
to the fort.
Along these two roads the men marched,
starting the morning of Feb. H. The First
and Second divisions moved forward. The
First division was commanded by Gen. John
A. McClernand, the Second by Gen. C. F.
Smith. They moved forward, McClernand's
division by the right hand or southerly road,
Smiths by the northerly or left hand road.
They came together two and one-haf miles
from Donelson. McClernand's forces took
the right wing south Of Donelson, Smiths the
left wing north of Donelson. Later word
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-02-19
A MORTAR R0AT.

The mortar boat got its name from the gun
it carried. First a heavy wooden float was
built. Upon it were erected very thick
wooden walls. These sloped inward and We're
about eight feet high. They were plated with
heavy iron. Inside was single heavy NOR
tar, with ammunition below the water line
There was also tent for the gunners within
the walls.
These mortar boats were considered for
midable twenty-five years ago. But such is
the improvement made since then in dest1uc
tive warfare that one shot from even a mod
crate sized gun of the kind now made would
knock an old fashioned mortar boat into
flinders.
One youthful Confederate gunner dis
tinguished himself gallantly at the lower
water battery at Fort Doneson While
Foote'S gunboats We're peppering the batter
les to the right and left, this youth, John G.
Frequa. stood perfectly straight at his gun,
taking aim and firing as coolly as if he had
been squirrel hunting.
ney"
He aimed at the smokestack of an advanc-
ing gunboat. 1t fell, carrying with it the
flag. Freque threw his cap in the air, yelling
detiantly.
Again the nervy boy took aim, clear and
straight. Shortly he sent a ball directly
through portfolio, and then the gunboat fell
back disa bled The portfolios of the boats
were quite large
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-02-19
HENRY AND DoNELsoN.

Henry and Donelson were important Con-
federate stations Henry was captured Feb.
8, 1862. A rising young brigadier general,
named Ulysses s. Grant, was at the head of
the force that took it. The victory called for
the first time the attention of the country to
this officer. The victory at Fort Henry, too,
was, strictly speaking, the beginning of the
turning of the tide in favor of the north A
gloom like the fog Of a winters day had been
on the country till then Men in the north
were signing for hero-a man who should
be strong enough to take the head of affairs
and turn heart sickening failure into victory
The hero was developing, though they
knew it not. He who was to lift the cloud
was the silent man that, even in the midst of
the victory of Fort Donelson, was ''too busy
TO write word
A notable point is the shortaess of Grants
dispatches at all times. A few messages, of
! not many lines, to his superior officer tell the
story of both Henry and Donelson. Gen.
Halleck, then at st. Louis, was in command
of the department Of the Missouri Grant
dispatched Halleck, Feb g. that Fort Henry
had fallen. He added these words:
Il shall take and destroy Fort Donelson on
the 6th and return to Fort Henry"
But he had undertaken larger contract
than even he could fill in the time he pro
posed. The freshets and overfows, which al
ways work such mischief in the south and
west, prevented, for one thing. The roads
leading TO Donelson we're a sea of mud By
the backwater of creeks on each side of the
fort there was a sea of water two miles in
land from the fort
The Cumberland runs north at the point
selected for Fort Donelson. About mile
south Of the fort, up the river, is the little
town of Dover. This hamlet was the head
quarters of the Confederate general, Gideon
J Pillow, during the siege. 1t was in Dover
that the last Confederate council of war be-
tween Gems. Floyd, Pillow, Buckner, Col. N.
B. Forrest and others took place, previous to
the surrender of the fort to Grant. Below
Fort Donelson, on the north, Hickman's
creek emptied into the Cumberland. II was
overfowed for miles, the water up to a
horses breast. Grant could not attack the
fort from that side. On the other hand,
however, in case the Confederates, being hard
pressed, wished to make a sally out from the
fort and escape by the Fort Henry road, as,
i'm fact, they did wish to do, this overfowed
creek would prevent them So, on the whole,
the backwater of Hickman's creek was an ad-
vantage to both besieger and besieged. Above
Fort Donelson, and between that and Dover,
was another stream Of water, Indian creek,
also overfowed.
Mudl There was never anything like it.
It was "half leg Deep" as specially mentioned
i'm Confederate official dispatches. Grants sol
diers fairly waded in mud cup to their eyes"
when they marched from Fort Henry to be-
siege Dover and Donelson. It few from the
horses hoqfs like rain and peppered pan and
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-02-19
-FOUR DAYS, FlGHTING.

To tell the truth, army officers do not
always write the clearest English, not even,
alas! regular army officers.
1t is difficult, therefore, for the historian to
gather from the colonels' and brigadier gener-
ais reports, just how battle was fought and
how and where the troops stood Grants re-
ports and orders, what there are of them, are
models Of clearness, brevity and simplicity
From them we gain more clear headed knowl-
edge than from most of the rest.
Immediately on the fall of Fort Henry,
Gen. Halleck began forwarding fresh troops
and supplies as fast as possible for the reduc-
ton of Donelson. Boys, on whose cheeks the
rose had not yet given place to tan, regiments,
as Judge Force says, so freshly formed that
they had hardly changed their civil garb for
soldiers uniform" We're hurried to the front
to help out Grant at Donelson.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-02-19
THE PREPARATION.

Turn TO your map. You viii see that the
Tennessee and Cumberland rivers run through
the state Of Kentucky side and side, ike twin
sisters. They empty into the Ohio not far
apart. They come near together first inside
the Tennessee line, and flow through that
state close beside each other. The Tennes-
see forms part of the boundary between the
two states for some distance On the Ten
nessee side, just opposite where the corner of
Kentucky begins, was Fort Henry. Twelve
miles across from it, slightly north OF east,
was Fort Donelson. on the Cumberland
Henry was OH the right bank Of the Tennes-
see, while Donelson was on the left bank of
the Cumberland